Across a roughly rectangular area approximately 550 metres east to west and 250 metres north to south, a network of relict field walls surfaces intermittently from the bog, their base stones protruding just above the peat like the spine of something buried. The walls themselves are collapsed drystone construction, typically around a metre thick and no more than half a metre high where they survive at all, with loose stones scattered along either side. What makes the site quietly disorienting is that some walls identified in aerial photography from 1973 have since disappeared entirely at ground level, swallowed back into the hillside.

The field system does not stand alone. Within the same network sit a cashel, three enclosures, and two hut sites, suggesting this was once a coherent and occupied agricultural settlement rather than a simple pastoral boundary. A cashel is a stone-walled ringfort, typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, and its presence in the north-western corner of the network hints at a long history of use on this slope. Alongside the older structural remains, there are also field-clearance cairns, the piled stones that result from laboriously removing rocks from cultivable ground, and the faint corrugations of 19th-century cultivation ridges running on a north-south axis. These ridges, sometimes called lazy beds, are the signature of intensive spade tillage, most commonly associated with potato cultivation in the decades before and around the Famine period. The layering of early medieval enclosure and post-medieval tillage compressed into the same hillside makes the site an unusually dense record of recurring human effort.